Fuerteventura airport passenger numbers fall 1.6% in October
Fuerteventura airport handled 578,704 passengers in October 2026, while traffic across the Canary Islands rose by 1% compared with a year earlier.
Fuerteventura airport handled 578,704 passengers in October 2026, a fall of 1.6% compared with the same month in 2025, figures from airport operator Aena show.
It was one of only two airports in the Canary Islands to record a year-on-year decline. Tenerife South saw passenger numbers fall by 1.9% to 1,142,246. Across the archipelago, traffic rose by 1% to 4,663,759 passengers.
Fuerteventura was the fifth-busiest airport in the islands during the month, behind Gran Canaria, Tenerife South, César Manrique-Lanzarote and Tenerife North-Ciudad de La Laguna. Gran Canaria led the ranking with 1,359,470 passengers, up 2.6% on October 2025.
Canary Islands traffic over the year
Of the passengers counted across the islands in October, 4,651,947 travelled on commercial flights. Domestic flights accounted for 1,928,496 passengers, up 1.1% year on year, while international flights carried 2,723,451, an increase of 1.2%.
Despite the October increase, the total for the first ten months of 2026 was slightly lower than a year earlier. Canary Islands airports handled 45,182,192 passengers from January to October, down 0.2% on the same period in 2025.